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While responding to a comment about this whole baby thing posted by New Kid in the Hallway over at Dr.Karen's blog, it reminded me of a piece in the NYTimes a couple years ago about women in academia having babies and the discrimination they deal with because of it versus men in academia who have kids. I do believe this happens and do not agree with capable women being treated poorly simply because they have children. Although, I think this is much more a result of your good old-fashioned sexism, not an anti-baby sentiment. In any case, I uploaded the text file here:
Hello Cheeky!
First, I wanted to thank you for visiting my blog and for commenting. I too think that "W" needs to be voted out for the sake of our nation. The "No Child is Left Behind" act he has for K-12 education is decimating our public schools... and many, many very good teachers are having to scramble around and waste time fullfilling NCLB nonsense to keep their jobs instead of further enriching their classrooms. In terms of college/university education, not only has "W" wreaked havoc in the granting agencies, but his well-known disdain for higher education and the employees of higher education has made us targets for sure.
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PipeTobacco
Pipe Tobacco- Welcome and thanks for the compliment! No problem with the linking, after, you're linked from my site as well. :-)
CP
Someone help me out here.... I KNOW there was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, some time in the past year, that focused on implications of parenthood for tenure.. and they cited some stat about the diff between the % of tenured me with children v. the % of tenured women with children... I remember the #s were even more dramatically different than i expected, but cant find the damn article.... maybe that wasnt Cof HE?? anybody?? anybody??
Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?... Bueller?...
Dr. K, there are stats of this nature from a UC-Berkeley study in this NYTimes article (although I don't know if they're the same ones to which you're referring.)
Actually, yeah, it was along those same lines (though I swear the #s in the other article were even more discrepant), but the article itself also addressed other variables that predicted greater tenure success rates for men v. women, and there was a companion piece related to having kids pre-tenure and "surviving."
I'll find it eventually...........
Just read the NYT piece you posted.
One of the things that always strikes me as needing further discussion comes up in the 9th paragraph of that piece, where it mentions that there are more male parents in those jobs than female parents. I'm always left wondering why it is that female academic parents don't take a page from the male academic parent playbook and do whatever it is that the men are doing to keep their kids from getting in the way of their jobs.
Similarly, I wonder about the 3rd to last paragraph (not counting the correction): why do women need to choose between babies and jobs when men don't.
(Of course it's easy to mull over these issues from where I sit, as I have zero interest in babies.)
